Tuesday 3 November 2015

Temporary profiles remain even after clearing out

On Windows 7 in an AppV and UEV environment, the profile fix highlighted in previous post has been run but users logon and still get temporary profiles, or even 2 profile folders, one proper and one temp which may be only partly populated.

The solution is to run thru the previous fixes, but in addition, manually search through the registry for the username and modify any entry referring to any instances of temp profiles.

E.g. search for bigpindy, you may turn up bigpindy.domainname.005, either as a reg key name or a value.

In either case, modify all of these entries to just bigpindy. You may have some keys that need renaming, others that the data needs modifying. If any return an error saying a key/entry with this name already exists, this key/entry will be OK to delete.

*disclaimer* modify your registry or profile at your own risk, I've done so hundreds of times and, touch wood, have yet to break a PC or Server, by simply ensuring I take care when faffing in Windows Registry.

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